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Witness To The End Of An Era

Raymond Asquith ACROSS THE MOSCOW RIVER: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN by Rodric Braithwaite Yale, £19.65, pp. 371, ISBN 0300094965 S everal British envoys to St Petersburg or......

Making Summer Pudding

Crouched on an upturned bucket, fingers stained, I weigh the rival claims of summer fruit: blackcurrants smell of old tom cat, but gleam glossy as toe-caps on a soldier's boot;......